Bent Lamination Woodworking

Bent lamination makes strong curved parts that wouldn t be possible with steam bending or sawing.

Bent lamination woodworking.

Bent wood lamination basics 10 tips for making strong graceful curves that add a new dimension to your woodworking. My entry for the rockler bent wood challenge hosted by rockler and the modern maker podcast. Bent lamination if you are one of those woodworkers who has thought about how nice it would be to use bent lamination in a project but are intimidated by the process think again. Bent laminating is an easily acquired skill that will open up new avenues for expressing your woodworking creativity.

Because it is achieved through gluing up thin laminates it works with most wood species and the multiple face grain glue joints give a bent laminated curve great strength. If your project won t be exposed to the weather you can use almost any good wood glue. We decided to make the bent wood ribs of our replica wright gliders by laminating the parts with a water resistant aliphatic resin yellow glue. Quite a while back i did a series of glue tests on bent laminations.

This project started as a trip to some of the local art museums searching for inspiration. The process starts with ripping some thin strips of wood and applying glue to each strip. Jason bent of bent s woodworking releases bi weekly youtube videos sharing tips and tricks how to s build videos and more all in an effort to make you a better woodworker. Then put against the original form.

You could also use resorcinol epoxy or polyurethane glue for an application like ours. Check out bent laminations. The wood used was hard maple one of the more difficult from both the glue adhesion and bending stiffness. Alex july 6 2016 11 36 am hey marc i have a question concerning clean up.

Basically the lamination is a half circle. I want to run this over the jointer which should is easy enough. Is your woodworking ready to break free of the box. I have to make a number of chair back arm rests out of a bent lamination.

You ll find a whole new world of possibilities to explore. Bend wood to make furniture using a bent lamination technique that involves cutting wood into the desired shape ripping wood strips applying glue with a ro. Over the course of this journey i learned about a new form of woodworking steam bending and bent lamination and a lot about myself. It s messy but rewarding to see a gracefully bent piece of wood emerge from a glue encrusted form.

10 layers 1 8 at about 5 radius after the glue had cured for 24 hours on the form the parts were laid aside for at least a week.